“I listen to Mussolini’s gentle voice talking to me of friendship, while my ears still ring with the death threats…”

French Prix Goncourt laureate Maurice Bedel wrote in the 1920s and 30s of the appeal and threat of fascism, and the people seduced by it in Italy and Germany. Parts of his book Fascisme An VII appeared in English translation in the November 1929 Atlantic as “A Frenchman Looks at Fascism“. It joins the public domain in both Europe and America in 58 days. #PublicDomainDayCountdown